Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788
1788
Repeating clock-watch with dials on front and back by Gautrin, Paris
1780
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Spoon with folding handle
1778
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.
1785
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Pivoted-detent escapement watch by Larcum Kendall
1786
Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1787
Musical table clock by Thwaites for Barraud
1788
Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son
hallmarked 1788
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Joseph Priestley LLD FRS
1782
Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789
1785-1789
Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques
1787
Gold minute repeating watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet
1784
Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy
1784
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights
1784
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784
1784
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
English wooden doll
circa 1780
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Mrs. Sage
1785
Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches
1780
Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs
1778-1780
Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787
1783-1787
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Watch with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son
1788
Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux
1785
Parts from a constant-force escapement by Thomas Mudge
1785
Marine chronometer movement by Brockbanks
1787
'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter
1780
Mr Lunardi's New Balloon
1785
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.
1783; 1914
Medal, silver, octagonal
1779
Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier
1786
Jean Pierre Blanchard
1785
Portrait. J.Buxton. Mezzotint 1781
1781
Gold Louis d'Or coin of Louis XVI (France)
1786
Quarter-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)
1778
Half-Real coin of Charles III (Spain)
1785
Guinea coin of George III
1779